I've been working away for some time on a new project: a digital Collectible Card Game called Argentum Age. It's a game which mixes tactical battle with a deck of cards that represents creatures and spells you can cast.

I am at a stage where I would love to get a few more people to look at it, try it out, and give me feedback on what you like or don't like about it. I would love it to end up as a community-driven project, like Wesnoth is, and as such would also love to find help from people enthusiastic about things like designing cards, balancing our games like this, making up campaigns, and so on. This is a great opportunity for anyone who loves Wesnoth to get in on the ground level with me on a new project. Message me if you are interested or with any feedback!

Looks nice Trying it out right now. By the way, I would add an "Exit Game" (or something similar) button in the main menu. I tried to get out of the game, but couldn't find a button to do so, until I pressed ESC.

Andrettin wrote:Looks nice Trying it out right now. By the way, I would add an "Exit Game" (or something similar) button in the main menu. I tried to get out of the game, but couldn't find a button to do so, until I pressed ESC.

Well this is an interesting point. On your system doesn't it open in a window by default and doesn't just pressing the normal Windows 'X' for the window close it?

Thanks for trying the game! Would love to hear any further feedback you have.

David

“At Gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” -- Ian Fleming

Andrettin wrote:Looks nice Trying it out right now. By the way, I would add an "Exit Game" (or something similar) button in the main menu. I tried to get out of the game, but couldn't find a button to do so, until I pressed ESC.

Well this is an interesting point. On your system doesn't it open in a window by default and doesn't just pressing the normal Windows 'X' for the window close it?

It does, but I sort of expected there to also be a button on the main screen. I

Thanks for trying the game! Would love to hear any further feedback you have.

David

I have completed the tutorial, and up to the second mission of the forest. I quite like the way the game plays. It is vaguely reminiscent of Magic, while still feeling very fresh. I specially like that the mana maximum increases constantly every turn, instead of depending on drawing a card that enhanced mana production (which in Magic could be quite a pain, with players sometimes drawing only "land" cards, or almost none).

I would enjoy if I could see how the cards on the field look by hovering them, or something of the sort (sorry if that's present but I missed it). I don't have much chance to see how exactly the opponent's card looks like, being limited to seeing the reduced graphic on the map.

The string on the world map still says "Citadel", rather than "Argentum Age" (although to be honest I like the former a bit better).

If I think of something else to comment on, I'll make another post later

By the way, will the player's progress during this test phase be maintained after the game is released, or will it be wiped out?

Andrettin wrote:
I have completed the tutorial, and up to the second mission of the forest. I quite like the way the game plays. It is vaguely reminiscent of Magic, while still feeling very fresh. I specially like that the mana maximum increases constantly every turn, instead of depending on drawing a card that enhanced mana production (which in Magic could be quite a pain, with players sometimes drawing only "land" cards, or almost none).

It is meant to be familiar to people who have played CCG's before but with enough fresh and new to offer a great new experience, so I'm glad you find it like that.

Andrettin wrote:
I would enjoy if I could see how the cards on the field look by hovering them, or something of the sort (sorry if that's present but I missed it). I don't have much chance to see how exactly the opponent's card looks like, being limited to seeing the reduced graphic on the map.

This is a great suggestion. I've implemented it so if you play now you should see the card if you mouse over the creature. It looks like this:

Andrettin wrote:
The string on the world map still says "Citadel", rather than "Argentum Age" (although to be honest I like the former a bit better).

Oops, fixed that too! I did like the name Citadel but it turns out it's far too confusing with other games or products.

Andrettin wrote:
If I think of something else to comment on, I'll make another post later

By the way, will the player's progress during this test phase be maintained after the game is released, or will it be wiped out?

Look forward to any other feedback you have.

Definitely intend to keep all your progress for you!

David

“At Gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” -- Ian Fleming

Last mission of second location was quite hard. Had to make M/A deck for that.

Curiously one of locations offered after beating last of second is another tutorial. Not complaining though, another troll is nice.

Seems that haste gives double attack too, second of which is without retalition.
Assassinate is same as deathtouch? I assumed it was and added it to counter trolls for second location but didnt get to use it. Seems that it isnt actually, tried it in later place.
Whats the point of discarding?

Memory usage seems high, 900mb.

Seems land and building can be at same place at once, however only the one that was played last is viewable with hover.

The card doesn't seem to be displayed properly. I'm on a laptop with windows 7 64 bit with an NVIDIA Geforce GT540M graphics card.

Also, when I tried to make my account using the same as name as what i have in the forum it said that the username was taken, then when I tried to log in using that said username i was able to log in so it seems that if you have an account on wesnoth forum automatically you have an account in this game?
Also how do I get it to run fullscreen rather than on a window, because the bottom most portion of the program window is clipped so I cannot see "crypt" and "library".

Dave wrote:
This is a great suggestion. I've implemented it so if you play now you should see the card if you mouse over the creature. It looks like this:

I've tried it out in-game. Quite nice

Look forward to any other feedback you have.

Definitely intend to keep all your progress for you!

David

Great

By the way, the description for the Witch's Path is the same as for The Iron Cities.

And I have a suggestion to make regarding villages. There are seemingly always two villages in the center lane, and one village in the leftmost lane. If I played with human players, naturally sometimes I would have one village in the leftmost lane, and one in the rightmost one. I suggest making it similar for fights against the AI; have the leftmost village be instead randomly generated either on the leftmost or on the rightmost lane.

Also, I think that it would be nice to be able to create more predefined decks (if the player owns enough cards), since some people might enjoy playing the card game, but not deck-building as much.

Thanks for all the feedback guys! Really appreciate it. I put a new update out with some more fixes

Ravana wrote:It would be nice that on win it would already select next mission.

I'll look into something to make this more convenient shortly.

Ravana wrote:
Seems that haste gives double attack too, second of which is without retalition.
Assassinate is same as deathtouch? I assumed it was and added it to counter trolls for second location but didnt get to use it. Seems that it isnt actually, tried it in later place.
Whats the point of discarding?

Haste only gives a single attack to the unit with haste. However, it does mean if a previous creature attacked an enemy and is now no longer there (probably because it died) you can summon a haste creature to attack again on the same turn. The enemy won't get to fight back because creatures only get to do damage at most once each turn. I might change this though to make it so defenders always hit back. I hope that makes sense.

Assassinate kills the enemy player with a single hit -- i.e. if you get a creature with assassinate to the enemy citadel you will win the game instantly. It doesn't help against enemy creatures at all.

You have a fixed hand size (4 + more if you control Villages or Libraries). At the start of your turn you draw up to your hand size. You might want to discard if some cards in your hand don't seem very useful and and you want to draw something else instead. I think I need to add something to the tutorial illustrating the importance of discarding.

Ravana wrote:
Memory usage seems high, 900mb.

I haven't done much performance work on the game yet. For memory usage on Windows though you probably want to look at the Private Working Set. On my system that comes in at only ~100mb after just having started a campaign game. The virtual address space usage might hit 1000mb+ but this doesn't reflect actual memory usage. Memory usage reporting is tricky business.

Ravana wrote:
Seems land and building can be at same place at once, however only the one that was played last is viewable with hover.

Fixed this. Now whichever one you hover over you get to see -- there is hopefully enough space around the edges to easily mouse over the land vs the creature/fortification on top of it.

Neither should be able to unless it specifically says so. Which card are you talking about and what could you target with it?

Ravana wrote:
Window size setting could be kept. Also, during ai turn I got some kind of assertion failed that made game stop responding.

Oh, did you get the text of the assertion or can you reproduce it?

Ravana wrote:
Reached the point where I need to ally with someone so cant get further.

Okay, hopefully we can get more people playing soon so multiplayer can be a thing!

I will also try to add some more campaign content soon.

Andrettin wrote:
In the third mission of the second campaign phase, I was about to win, ended the turn and alt+tabbed. When I came back, this was the result

This is the UI for when you mouse over the crypt or library and it shows you the cards you have. It shouldn't show over the top of the victory dialog of course so I have fixed it in the latest update, shouldn't happen again!

max_torch wrote:
The card doesn't seem to be displayed properly. I'm on a laptop with windows 7 64 bit with an NVIDIA Geforce GT540M graphics card

I haven't fixed this yet but will try to get to it soon!

max_torch wrote:
Also, when I tried to make my account using the same as name as what i have in the forum it said that the username was taken, then when I tried to log in using that said username i was able to log in so it seems that if you have an account on wesnoth forum automatically you have an account in this game?

This would have been a bug where maybe you double clicked the register button. It sent two register messages, one which succeeded and the other which returned an error. Of course it's a bug to allow this so I've fixed it now, thanks for the report!

max_torch wrote:
Also how do I get it to run fullscreen rather than on a window, because the bottom most portion of the program window is clipped so I cannot see "crypt" and "library".

Press ctrl+f for fullscreen

Andrettin wrote:
By the way, the description for the Witch's Path is the same as for The Iron Cities.

And I have a suggestion to make regarding villages. There are seemingly always two villages in the center lane, and one village in the leftmost lane. If I played with human players, naturally sometimes I would have one village in the leftmost lane, and one in the rightmost one. I suggest making it similar for fights against the AI; have the leftmost village be instead randomly generated either on the leftmost or on the rightmost lane.

Yes, next up is to work more on the campaign, and add more diverse maps with various differences!

Andrettin wrote:
Also, I think that it would be nice to be able to create more predefined decks (if the player owns enough cards), since some people might enjoy playing the card game, but not deck-building as much.

Yes, definitely! Do you have any suggestions for decks to add?

“At Gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” -- Ian Fleming